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With less than two weeks before the Cornell race the University crew is being tuned up for that event. As the race is only two miles in length, a high stroke must be maintained throughout the distance and it is upon this point that Coach Wray is now laying special emphasis...
...clock sees at least thirty men waiting for a chance to play. The same situation maintains from October 1 until the frost comes. Moreover, on afternoons when there is a strong breeze from the prevailing quarter, clouds of sand, worn from the top-dressing, drive down the whole length of the courts; games are stopped and much of the pleasure and health of the sport is neutralized...
...half-mile the second crew began to gain on the first, and at Harvard Bridge had gained a lead of half a length, which was opened to a length in the next few hundred yards. At this point the Juniors had passed the Seniors. A quarter of a mile below the bridge the Freshmen began to hit their pace and gained slowly on the second, passing them just before the finish line...
...Freshman crew won the Beacon Cup Regatta for class crews yesterday afternoon, finishing a scant half-length ahead of the second Freshman eight after a hard race. The Juniors were third, two lengths behind the second Freshmen, and a length ahead of the Seniors. The second Sophomores were fifth and the Sophomores last...
...worse without the least effort on the city's part to keep them in repair. In reply to repeated complaints, the street department states that conditions are no worse near the College than elsewhere in the city, but this seems scarcely tenable, Quincy street throughout its entire length, and Kirkland and Oxford streets where fronted by University grounds, are in a deplorable state, uneven and with crossings several inches above the proper level, while Trowbridge and Craigie streets are, comparatively speaking, in good repair. The condition of Dunster street and Boylston as far out as the Stadium, and of those...